Hi I’m Greta! I’m the founder and owner of Lifted by Greta.

Lifted by Greta was created to embrace every person’s pursuit of improved movement, strength, and confidence in their body’s unique quality of life.

I’m a professional dancer who’s been dancing for over 20 years in the styles of ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz, and tap. During my college years as a dance major, I began to slide down the slippery slope of overtraining and under-nourishing my body. I had the mindset of achieving the “ideal figure” in order to have the “perfect dancer body” that I thought would book me dance jobs I wanted so badly for right out of college. I became very fatigued both mentally and physically throughout the day, I was muscularly weak in all my dance classes, and overall confused as to how I could fit the mold that I thought the entertainment industry demanded. 

I was introduced to weight lifting in the college gym by my now husband as a way to cross train for the dance classes I could barely get through and to get my mind away from the dance world for a few hours of my day. The movement was foreign and I had little experience with what form was needed to correctly squat, lunge, or even attempt a deadlift. I was not in my element of what my normal movement patterns were for me at the time, but it humbled me to try something new and help my body to function more efficiently in the dance studio.

I started to see my muscular strength build and my confidence soar in what my body was capable of doing. I was finally giving my body the cross training exercises it needed to get stronger, feeding those muscles to grow, and seeing the positive effects in the dance studio. Upon graduating college, I knew that I was not the only dancer or person that felt intimidated by mastering a new form of exercise and motion mechanics. Especially in spaces like a public gym.

In 2020, I graduated from Ball State University with a bachelor of fine arts in dance performance. During that time, I earned my personal training certification from the American Council on Exercise. I moved from Kentucky to Milwaukee in the summer of 2021 in pursuit of my professional dance career. I’m proud to say that I’m currently a company artist for two professional companies, Danceworks Performance MKE and THREE POINT PROJECT. Along with dancing professionally I made it my goal to set roots and build my personal training business, Lifted by Greta.

I aim to teach each of my clients the importance of THEIR body’s mechanics, mind to body connection in each exercise we do, and ensure in each of them that they have the potential to reach their movement goals.

I’m so excited to be building this community of movers and creating a space where everyone will feel uplifted by the movement they’re experiencing and the training they’re accomplishing.